emmagrant01 | Two things

First, a little RL vent: BG and I followed DH on a business trip this weekend to a lovely warm place to stay at a resort hotel. A colleague of DH's who lives in town invited herself, her husband, and their 5yo son over to the resort to go swimming with us this afternoon. This sounded like fun, of course. Except that it somehow ended up meaning that *I* spent two hours in the pool babysitting their kid while they and DH sat on the side of the pool and drank. TWO HOURS. Their kid was incredibly clingy, and spent most of the time hanging on me on the pool, while his parents (who had come prepared to swim, mind) just sat in lounge chairs and watched, and while I was trying to make sure I kept a hand on my 3yo, who can swim, but not well enough to be on his own for long in 4 feet of water. For Two. Hours.

Seriously, what kind of parent pawns their child off on someone else like that? I actually felt sorry for their son, who desperately wanted to play with us, and there was no way I was going to make my son get out of the pool and go back to the room when he had been so excited about swimming. So yeah, NOT COOL. DH owes me for this one, big time.

Second, I know almost nothing about Merlin. I haven't watched it, I haven't read any fic, and barely know who the characters are. So when I looked at this gorgeous NSFW porny Merlin art by

jad, a new-to-me artist whose work I adore, guess what fandom and pairing *I* was thinking of? I'll give you three guesses, but you won't need them.

I think I'm starting to see the appeal... ;-)